Explorations in software troubleshooting
A system is a point of view – natural for a poet, yet terrifying for a scientist. Gerald Weinberg, An Introduction to General Systems Thinking, page 52. Up until this point, I haven’t really addressed the idea of “a system” directly, but systems are implicit in all of these discussions. A “system” is the thing …
I was running a performance test recently, and I saw some odd behavior. My usual process is to restart the application, let it finish initializing, and then run a simulation for about an hour. That’s usually enough time to collect enough samples to get a good idea of the performance of various requests. My 1 …